** Summary changed:
- Please remove wireless-tools from oracular
+ Please remove wireless-tools from the archive
** Changed in: wireless-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Released => In Progress
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Title:
Please remove wireless-tools from the archive
Status in kubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in lubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-gnome-meta package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in wireless-tools package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Bug description:
Wireless Extensions support in the kernel has been deprecated[1] for a
long time now. wireless-tools[2] userspace utility should be removed.
iw[3] is considered as the alternate.
See page[4] for comparison between wireless-tools and iw. iw supports
everything except deprecated Wireless-Extensions.
See page[5] for replacing iwconfig with iw.
$ reverse-depends wireless-tools
Reverse-Recommends
==================
* broadcom-sta-dkms
* hw-probe
* laptop-mode-tools
* task-laptop
* whereami
Reverse-Depends
===============
* aircrack-ng [amd64 ppc64el s390x]
Packages without architectures listed are reverse-dependencies in:
amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x
$ reverse-depends -b wireless-tools
Reverse-Build-Depends
=====================
* networkd-dispatcher
[1]
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/wireless-extensions
[2] https://hewlettpackard.github.io/wireless-tools/Tools.html
[3] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/documentation/iw
[4]
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration/Wireless#iw_and_wireless_tools_comparison
[5]
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/documentation/iw/replace-iwconfig
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